Excellent.

Xin Li had a partial patch earlier tonight that got the prompts directed properly to console.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: (ITS#6702) slappasswd prompts missing From: Howard Chu hyc@symas.com To: gessel@blackrosetech.com Date: Thu Nov 11 2010 19:18:29 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

gessel@blackrosetech.com wrote:

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Note: on editing slapd.conf, I see that prompt IO is directed to the file, not to the console. That is the file contains the prompts: "rootpw New password:" "Re-enter new password:"

Apparently FreeBSD doesn't provide a usable getpassphrase() in its libc, so a replacement in the OpenLDAP code is used instead. The OpenLDAP code is now fixed in HEAD.